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Roth, Claudia, 1955-2012

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Personal name headingRoth, Claudia, 1955-2012
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Variant(s)Roth, Claudia, 1955-
Associated countrySwitzerland
Associated placeBurkina Faso
Birth date1955
Death date2012
Field of activityEthnology Urban anthropology City and town life--Burkina Faso--Bobo-Dioulasso Male domination (Social structure) Women--Economic conditions Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects
AffiliationUniversität Zürich
Universität Bern
Universität Luzern
Mande Studies Association
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien
Profession or occupationEthnologists Anthropologists Journalists
Found inGenzeit, c1987: t.p. (Claudia Roth) p. 209 (b. 1955; ethnologist)
Urban dreams: transformations of family life in Burkina Faso, 2018: ECIP title page (Claudia Roth) ECIP data view (Claudia Roth (1955-2012); taught and conducted anthropological research at the universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne; she served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA); this is the first collection of her work to appear in English) ECIP title page verso (most chapters translated; two chapters were originally published in English) ECIP introduction (the translated articles were originally published in German and French; MA in social anthropology 1982, University of Zurich, thesis on women's work and power; also worked as journalist and activist on issues of biotechnologies related to humans, animals and plants in the 1980s, author and editor of The age of genes (Genzeit), 1987; began fieldwork in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1989)
Associated languageger fre eng